Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Recovering partitions from an imaged drive

2005-08-17 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
Tom Eastman wrote: > How can I take this image of ('hda') and mount the filesystem > ('hda1') that's inside it? I'm not sure, but mounting the whole hda as loopback could work (seem to remember a thread about this some time ago on the list, search the archives). In case it does not, try this. S

[gentoo-user] OT: Recovering partitions from an imaged drive

2005-08-17 Thread Tom Eastman
Hey guys, this is a non-gentoo question but I figure someone on here will have the answer I seek :-) My father's laptop (running Windows XP) managed to detonate itself a few days back and I'm trying to recover information from it. Before we wiped the hard drive I loaded a LiveCD and imaged the en